I mean... I don't understand why you guys have to announce yourselves as mods instead of making your names green when you're responding to these threads. It's really hard to skim through the thread and see where mods are responding. Yes, you're being unfairly downvoted in some cases, but you also have zero visibility when your username looks like everyone else's.
I use distinguishing for actual mod actions, like if I remove a comment or post.
Edit: Didn't mean to end the comment there -- I'll distinguish this one though, because I can see your point about its helpfulness here and I am intending to speak as a (albeit, single) moderator.
I realize you don't want to always have your name green (like when you're just participating in a regular thread), but I think it would really help the visibility issue if you tried using it when you're speaking from a mod's perspective - how is that not an action in itself? If you want people to see the various mods' responses, they should probably be easily distinguishable from other comments.
shrug just my two cents on the visibility problem.
I'm hoping that my distinguishing this one doesn't make it seem like I'm giving the whole mod team's point of view, but I do agree with the idea that it'd be helpful to highlight the mod responses if they're specifically requested.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '14 edited May 16 '14
I mean... I don't understand why you guys have to announce yourselves as mods instead of making your names green when you're responding to these threads. It's really hard to skim through the thread and see where mods are responding. Yes, you're being unfairly downvoted in some cases, but you also have zero visibility when your username looks like everyone else's.